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**Digital Literacies. **Definitions of digital literacy are of two main kinds: conceptual definitions and standardized sets of operations intended to provide national and international normalizations of digital literacy. Lankshear & Knobel p. 21. The authors proceed to note that two of the best-known conceptual definitions of digital literacy are provided by Richard Lanham and Paul Gilster.Lanham claims that ‘literacy’ has extended its semantic reach from meaning ‘the ability to read and write’ to now meaning ‘the ability to understand information however presented. Digitally literate people are “quick on their feet in moving from one kind of medium to another…know what kinds of expression fit what kinds of knowledge and become skilled at   **Digital Natives versus Digital Immigrants. And insiders versus newcomers. **Terms to distinguish those who have been born into and have grown up within the context of cyberspace, and those who come to this new world from the standpoint of a life-long socialization in physica.l space.